| From the beginning, the "apartheid" slur was meant as a rhetorical weapon, not as truth. And so it remains today.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 01 Fe | | I found an interesting if quite biased academic paper called "Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance and the Apartheid Analogy" which traces the beginnings of the accusations that Israel is guilty of apartheid - an accusation that pre-dates "occupation."
While the author, Nina Fischer of Goethe University Frankfurt, tries to position the apartheid slur as just another means of "resistance"for Palestinians, she doesn't quite realize she is saying that lying about and slandering Israel is a conscious decision on the part of Palestinian leaders as a means to destroy it - just as violent resistance is.
She traces the accusation to Fayez Sayegh, one of those "Palestinians" who was born in Syria and whose family moved to Palestine in the 1920s to take advantage of the economic opportunities created by Jews. Sayegh became a major Palestinian theorist. He wrote a book about "Zionist colonialism" before 1967 and then became the UN's special rapporteur to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which enabled him to become one of the architects of the 1975 UNGA "Zionism is Racism" resolution.
He would often equate Zionism with "genocide", "crimes against humanity", and "racist discrimination" alongside apartheid. It is clear to all that this was his weapon, in concert with Palestinian...Read More |
From Ian: NGO Monitor: Late to the Propaganda Party – Amnesty's Derivative Echo of the NGO Apartheid Attack Against Israel On February 1, Amnesty International will release yet another volume in the litany of copy-paste NGO reports that label Israel as an "apartheid" state. The publication breaks no new ground and is not meaningfully different from the discredited Human Rights Watch (HRW) and B'Tselem reports from 2021 – yet Amnesty says they took over four years to produce it. Like many previous NGO publications, Amnesty's report manipulates and distorts international law, Israeli policy, and events on the ground, as well as denies the Jewish people their right to sovereign equality and self-determination. Thus, Amnesty's report can be considered antisemitic according to the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which notes that: "Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor." Likewise, Amnesty's report criminalizes Israeli laws and practices designed to safeguard Jewish identity – such as the Law of Return – which are enshrined under international law and parallel the practices of many nation-states. In these attacks, Israeli policies are artificially framed as attempts to preserve "Jewish domination" – an antisemitic trope and refrain throughout the publication. Amnesty's overarching argument is that everything...Read More |
On Monday, the Syrian foreign ministry issued a statement: "The government of the Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the criminal demolition and destruction of the property of the Palestinian people throughout the occupied Palestinian territories by the Israeli occupation forces, including the demolition of the two homes of the Salhia family in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem. and arresting family members. [It] constitutes a crime that contradicts international law, the Bill of Human Rights, international humanitarian law, and United Nations Security Council and General Assembly resolutions."
Here is what the Palestinian Yarmouk camp in Syria looked like after this humanitarian government was done with it. Over 3000 Palestinians were killed in Syria during its civil war. * * * * * *
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From Ian: JPost Editorial: Herzog's visit to UAE is both historic and heartwarming The timing of the visit is also significant. The visit comes as the UAE and Saudi Arabia have repeatedly suffered attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels from Yemen and indeed security for the visit was tightened. Herzog's trip can also be seen against the backdrop of the attempts by the US, Europe and others to revive the nuclear deal with Iran, something that threatens Israel and the Gulf. There is no doubt that the subject of Iran will be high on the agenda. During the visit, it is expected that progress will be made toward the completion of a bilateral free trade agreement, and the president is scheduled to officially open Israel's national day at Dubai Expo 2020 on Monday. This symbolizes, in many ways, the heightened importance of the three main groups of ties – political-diplomatic, commercial and technological – which benefit us all. The visit by the president of Israel to the local Jewish community is also a sign of how far relations have come in such a short time. Jews in the UAE and Bahrain have lived openly and without fear of attacks for generations, but the ties between their countries and Israel have helped create stronger bonds within their own communities, too. The links between Israel and the Gulf continue to strengthen, reinforcing the fact that Israel is an integral part of the region and can contribute to its...Read More |
Yesterday in Orlando,FL, a neo-Nazi antisemitic rally. The Jewish community in our country must get serious about our self-defense, real quick. This was today in Orlando. pic.twitter.com/4UgCJXDFv6 — Mayor Gabriel Groisman (@GabeGroisman) January 31, 2022Last week in Brooklyn, a young visibly Jewish woman was verbally attacked on a subway car by a Black man who threatened her and screamed for her to leave the train while passengers watched and didn't intervene.
Because to help a Jewish woman might be racist.
On Saturday in Lakewood, NJ, a snowplow driver laughingly took a video of himself purposefully dumping snow on two Orthodox Jews. In Chicago: The Jewish Community in West Rogers Park, Chicago was hit by string of hate crimes over the past 24 hours, YWN has learned. Two Jewish institutions have had swastikas scrawled on them, two Jewish stores had their windows smashed, and a Jewish man was attacked. The two Jewish institutions that had swastikas scrawled on them are the Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov, and Congregation F.R.E.E. The two Jewish stores that had their windows...Read More |
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Israel has existed for 73 years. During that time, the rights of the Arab citizens of Israel have only increased. They lived under military rule until 1966 and not thereafter. Since then, while it has been slow, their rights as full citizens have been strengthened and supported by Israel's High Court. Today, they have unprecedented rights and have become successfully integrated in fields like medicine and high tech, and millions of shekels are earmarked to improve the lives of Arab Israelis.
Palestinian Arabs lived under effective belligerent military occupation from 1967 until the Oslo process in the 1990s. Since then, the vast majority of them have been living under full autonomy in Area A and Gaza, and partial autonomy in Area B, under their own governments. They also have more rights than they had before the 1990s.
Yet at the exact same time that Palestinian Arabs both within and without the territories have been gaining more rights, human rights groups like B'Tselem, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been steadily accusing Israel of worse and worse crimes.
Nothing makes that clearer than their recent jihad. During the course of a single year, each of those groups decided that Israel's treatment of Palestinians has crossed the line into being considered "apartheid."
And, amazingly, each of them - B'Tselem...Read More |
Jodi Rudoren, the editor in chief of the Forward and formerly of the New York Times, sends out a weekly newsletter to subscribers and potential subscribers. In last week's newsletter she wrote a very nice story about Bob Cumins, a photojournalist who has taken some of the most iconic photos in history, and how he went out of his way to send her a replacement copy of a New York Times edition with her very first front page story from 1998 that she had lost in a flood.
But one sentence in that story seemed jarring to me. He would eventually cover some 30 General Assemblies of the Jewish Federations of North America and make about 300 trips to Israel with politicians, business moguls and philanthropists. He's witnessed every peace-treaty handshake — Camp David in 1978 and 1979; the Oslo Accords in 1993 and Jordan the next year; Wye River in 1998. He spent 18 months working for Hillary Clinton during her first Senate campaign. He caught Joe Namath in the locker room after Super Bowl III. He made a stunning collection he calls "Snows of Jerusalem" during a 1980 storm. In Rudoren's list of peace treaty handshakes, she doesn't mention anything about the Abraham Accords. I messaged her and asked if Cumins had witnessed them as well...Read More |
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